After a solid first professional season in the Italian League, K-State’s all-time leading scorer Jacob Pullen is back in the NBA Summer League. Pullen led the Philadelphia 76’ers outfit with a game-high 15 points on day one against the Indiana Pacers. He was 5 of 11 from the field, including three of six from beyond the arc, and two of four at the line. Pullen also added three rebounds and two assists. The 76’ers will play their second of five games in Orlando on Tuesday morning against the Utah Jazz. Former K-Stater Dominique Sutton also is suiting up for the Orlando…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Detroit’s Justin Verlander will start on the mound for the American League, and Matt Cain of San Francisco will go for the National League in Tuesday night’s All-Star game. Verlander posted a 9-5 record with a 2.58 ERA for the Tigers in the first half of the season. Cain went 9-3, including a perfect game, with a 2.62 ERA for the Giants. American League manager Ron Washington announced his starting lineup. Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter will lead off, followed by his teammate Robinson Cano at second. Texas left fielder Josh Hamilton bats third, followed by…
Detroit’s Prince Fielder outslugged Toronto’s Jose Bautista to win Monday night’s Home Run Derby. Fielder defeated Bautista 12-7 in the final round. He’s only the second player to win the derby more than once, having won it in 2009. Ken Griffey Jr. won three derby crowns. Fielder hit 28 during the three rounds, including one measured at 476 feet, longest of the night. Defending champ Robinson Cano was blanked in his round and was booed by the Kansas City crowd. The crowd believed Cano should’ve selected Kansas City’s Billy Butler to participate in the annual contest. Cano made several comments…
In an election-year faceoff, President Obama is demanding Congress renew Bush-era tax cuts only for the middle class, but Republicans say that just means a whopping tax hike for everyone else.
The mother of a Detroit woman shot and killed while dancing with an off-duty police officer questioned Monday why he would carry a loaded gun at a party in his own backyard.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The hot weather has claimed hundreds of carp at a nature preserve outside Lawrence. The state Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism says the dead carp lining the banks of the pond at the Kanza Southwind Nature Preserve outside Lawrence died from the excessive heat. Chuck Bever, regional fisheries supervisor with department, told The Lawrence Journal-World that the hot weather and decaying plants take oxygen out of the water, leaving little for fish. The heat affect is most often seen in small lakes and ponds.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Kansas has again appealed a federal judge’s order prohibiting the state from stripping federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood clinics in Wichita and Hays as well as an unaffiliated clinic in Dodge City. Monday’s appeal notice seeks to put both the 2011 and 2012 statutes before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals more quickly. The lawsuit stems from a Kansas law requiring the state to first allocate federal family planning money to public health departments and hospitals, which leaves no funds for specialty clinics. Planned Parenthood and the Dodge city Family Planning Clinic earlier won…
On Tuesday morning in Riley District Court the capital murder trial of Luis Aguirre continues as it enters its second phase, and jurors will decide whether or not to give Aguirre the death penalty. Aguirre has been convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Tanya Maldonado, and their 13-month-old son Juan in October of 2009. Aguirre then buried their bodies in shallow graves in a field nearby. In opening statements prosecutors informed the jury that the aggravating facts in the case are the premeditated murders, and the jurors must weigh the deaths of Tanya and her son Juan against any factors that…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A federal judge wants to hear more evidence before he rules on a request by a former consultant for the University of Kansas who is seeking to have his sentence shortened in a ticket scalping conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot on Monday ordered U.S. Marshals to bring Thomas Ray Blubaugh back to Kansas from Oklahoma, where he’s serving his sentence. The hearing date will be set after Blubaugh returns. Blubaugh pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to defraud the United States through wire fraud, tax obstruction and interstate transportation of stolen property. He’s seeking to reduce…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The state Supreme Court has appointed three people to hear a lawyer’s complaint against the state’s top legal ethics official. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Kansas Supreme Court has named Overland Park attorney Nancy Anstaett, retired Kansas Court of Appeals judge J. Patrick Brazil and Wichita attorney Mikel Stout to hear the complaint filed by Keen Umbehr in May against state disciplinary administrator Stanton Hazlett. Umbehr accuses Hazlett of falsely telling him that an ethics review panel made a finding of probable cause against Umbehr in a dispute with the Kansas Department of Corrections. Umbehr was…